Hornbuckle v. McCarty

Plaintiffs by this action seek to recover damages for the death of their minor son, Beyrel, who was run over and killed by a motor truck, at the crossing of Fourth and Maple Streets, in Poplar Bluff, on the 12th day of June, 1920.

Fourth Street, also known as Broadway, ran north and south; Maple Street, east and west. The former approached the latter from the south on a rising grade, which reached its crest at the intersection. Maple Street from that point proceeded west on a descending grade. Fourth Street was forty feet wide, and Maple about twenty-five. Both streets were paved, and at the…